Foster Care

The Orange County Register newspaper is set to honor “everyday heroes”, or people who make a difference without being in the spotlight, with the top honor going to a man who works with foster care teens.

For decades, Tai Babilonia and her partner Randy Gardner were known as ice skating royalty. Not making headlines in the years since was Tai’s alcoholism. The Olympian spoke with CBS2’s Pat Harvey about her struggle and how she changed her life for the better.

Eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez was doused with pepper spray, forced to eat his own vomit and locked in a cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth to muffle his screams before he was beaten to death by his own mother, according to court records released this week.